Why are some slums in India's cities able to demand development from the state while others fail? Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Auerbach explains this uneven success of slum residents. This book is aimed at researchers and students in comparative politics, political economy, development studies, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
Why are some slums in India's cities able to demand development from the state while others fail? Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Auerbach explains this uneven success of slum residents. This book is aimed at researchers and students in comparative politics, political economy, development studies, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
Adam Michael Auerbach is an assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, DC. His doctoral dissertation won the Best Fieldwork Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Best Dissertation Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of APSA, and APSA's Gabriel A. Almond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics. His research on politics and development in urban India has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Contemporary South Asia, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, and World Politics.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Puzzling disparities at the margins of the city 2. Setting the stage: governance and political parties in Urban India 3. How party worker networks impact local development 4. India's slum leaders 5. Views from the ground: narratives from eight squatter settlements 6. Party workers and public goods provision: evidence from 111 settlements 7. Why party worker networks spread unevenly across settlements.
1. Puzzling disparities at the margins of the city 2. Setting the stage: governance and political parties in Urban India 3. How party worker networks impact local development 4. India's slum leaders 5. Views from the ground: narratives from eight squatter settlements 6. Party workers and public goods provision: evidence from 111 settlements 7. Why party worker networks spread unevenly across settlements.
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